Zeitgeist: Addendum

Zeitgeist: Addendum by Peter Joseph is a 2008 film produced, which complements, the film of the same director deepened by means of a documentary of the considerations published in 2007 film Zeitgeist and. The film deals with the American Federal Reserve System, the CIA, forms of government, religion and the business and economic situation of the world by examples of the United States. He concludes these institutions an inherent corruption that mankind as a whole can only be harmful and should be replaced. The film describes the "Venus Project" as not perfect, but nowadays possible solution. In 2011 appeared with Zeitgeist: Moving Forward the third film of the director on this subject.

According to the director Peter Joseph, the film tries to uncover the causes of the ubiquitous, social corruption, while offering a solution. This conclusion emphasizes the film that any belief systems always generated a need of dependence. It presents concrete ways in which the current monetary system can be weakened. The film suggests different approaches that should lead to a " social transformation "; among other boycotts of the large banks that make up the Federal Reserve System, hiding the mainstream mass media boycott of the military and getting out of the energy dependence of the major energy companies over.

• 2.1 Part I - Modern Money Mechanics
• 2.2 Part II - The trap of debt and anxiety
• 2.3 Part III - The solution is: "Resource -oriented rather than profit -oriented"!
• 2.4 Part IV - The Evolution calls unfolding into new realities!

Publication and reaction

Zeitgeist: Addendum was at the 5th annual Artivist Film Festival in Los Angeles, California for the first time publicly demonstrated on October 2, 2008 and was made ​​freely available to 4 October 2008 online.

YouTube Views

The film reached within 419 days, 2 million views (as of April 17, 2011 ) on the video portal YouTube. According to YouTube statistics of the film, especially in the USA, Brazil and Saudi Arabia is popular.

Content

Zeitgeist: Addendum is divided content into four parts.

Part I - Modern Money Mechanics

Part I criticizes the actions of the American banking system ( fractional- reserve banking ), in particular the creation of money through loans. The argument of the film is based on the document " Modern Money Mechanics " which was issued by the criticized organization (FED ) and is roughly the following content: Dollar notes are printed or electronically generated money when the Federal Reserve Bank treasury bills and bonds buys. This money then ends up in commercial banks. If the money is deposited in a bank, it will be " increased " by the application of the fractional reserve system and presented to the bank's customers through credits on. The film claims that this system "absurd " since the interest rate that must be paid back with a credit at some point, was not also created at the beginning than money. So is always missing money in the entire system. The film compares this situation with the game "musical chairs " in which also always one must be neglected. The result is somewhere necessarily debt that can never be repaid, because the interest rates do not exist because they were not created with.

Part II - The trap of debt and anxiety

Part II is an interview in the style of a documentary with John Perkins, author of the bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. In this interview, he describes his as outlined in the Book of professional experience as an Economic Hitman: as a civil person who was hired by the CIA and sent to different areas of the world to produce certain political and / or economic changes there. He admits to have helped the CIA and the ruling political and economic elites, on several occasions, to subvert foreign sovereign governments when they had put the interests of the general public about the international economy. This behavior was not wanted by the CIA and leading elites of the United States.

Part III - The solution is: "Resource -oriented rather than profit -oriented"!

Part III describes the Venus Project, a proposal that was developed by Jacque Fresco. The film presents the Venus Project as a sustainable form of management and possible solution for the present mankind on Earth dar. Its main goal is the creation of a " resource-based " economy through modern technology. This should not be relevant for the objectives of the maximum profit, but the sustainability of the raw materials and resources throughout the ecological balance.

Part IV - The Evolution calls unfolding into new realities!

Part IV is to show that the things that are going wrong in our society, the fundamental result of a collective ignorance of the most basic findings of human reality are. What is meant here are the constantly evolving and improving natural and symbiotic aspects of natural law. The film describes the current American system as one that basically works against these aspects and therefore should be replaced by a more advanced system, as countless times in the past were old systems replaced by better new. It is believed that this change does not have much time left.

The film then suggests actions before that have to produce a "social transformation ", such as the boycott by major banks, mainstream media, military and major energy companies to generate a critical mass of the population who do not want to live in this " outdated " system and this shows through their way of life.

Awards

On 2 October 2008, the film won the " Artivist Spirit Award - Best Feature ." At the Artivist Film Festival 2008 This was at the same time its world premiere at the opening night of the festival.

The co-host Dr. Bettina Wolff said in a speech:

" The miss of our world to resolve the issues of war, poverty and corruption, resting in a cruel ignorance about what guides human behavior. Zeitgeist: Addendum addresses the true source of the instability in our society whilst benefiting from a fundamental long-term solution. Director Peter Joseph has the ability to select a risky subject and turn it into a visual, emotional, and intellectually captivating affair -. , And the higher from an angle "

On 9 October 2008, the film was rated among the 19 best in the Guardian's weekly Viral Video Chart, which is based on the number of links and video links to other websites. In this case, the spot was linked in approximately 2 million blogs.

Criticism

G. Edward Griffin, author of The Creature from Jekyll Iceland criticized the film for it to praise collectivist ideas. He said, " This film offers no cure, but a mega- dose of the disease itself "

Radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones gave the film a negative feedback. In his opinion, brings the film " good aspects, but offers false solutions. " He believes that the film is as " rat poison ". " 98 % good, but the 2 % kill you. " After Jones says Zeitgeist: Addendum from that greed is a major cause of our current situation, in his opinion, that's not the whole truth. It would also about power and centralization of power by globalization.

The journalist Christopher Cadenbach points out that interest is defined in economics as part of the return on the investments that are made ​​with the borrowed capital. This allows them, unlike in the film claiming to be repaid without money in the entire system would be missing.